Nika Rurua

Nika Rurua (17 March 1968-4 December 2018) was Minister of Monument Protection of Georgia from 10 October 2008 to 25 October 2012, succeeding Grigol Vashadze and preceding Guram Odisharia.

Biography
Nika Rurua was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union in 1968, and he joined the Mkhedrioni nationalist paramilitary group and fought against the Abkhazian separatist forces. Rurua later became a businessman and journalist, and he became a United National Movement MP in 2003. In 2005, he established the Museum of Soviet Occupation, and he served as Minister of Monument Protection of Georgia from 2008 to 2012. He died of a heart attack at his Tbilisi apartment in 2018.